Count. Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all
questions.
15Clo. It is like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks, the
pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any
buttock.
Count. Will your answer [serve fit] to all questions?
Clo. As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,
20as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as [Tib's rush]
for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday, a
morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his
horn, as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave, as the nun's
lip to the friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.
25Count. Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for
all questions?
Clo. From below your duke to beneath your constable,
it will fit any question.
Count. It must be an answer of most monstrous size
30that must fit all demands.
Clo. But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned
should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that belongs to't.
Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall do you no harm to learn.
Count. To be young again, if we could: I will be a
35fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer.
[I pray] you, sir, are you a courtier?